Mailing-package.



A. S. PIERSUN.

MAILING PAFKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED um 11, 190B Patented Jan. 12. 1909 AHOMEYS,

M w W UNITED sTArEs PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR S. PIERSON, OF MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.

MAILING-PACKAGE.

Patented Jan, 12, 1909.

Serial No. 420,336.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR S. PmRsoN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Morristown, in the county of Morris ant State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing- Packages, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to packages for use in mailing )apers, drawings, lithographs and various ot er kinds and classes of articles, and the ob'ect thereof is to provide an imroved pac age of this class which is simple in construction and comparatively inex cn sive, and which may be easily close or sealed whenever desired and also as easily opened; a further object being to provide a mailing package in the form of a to. c having im roved end closing devices.

he invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accomp anying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable re erence characters in each of the views, and in which;

F re 1 is a side view of a tubular package provided with my improved closin devices, the end portions being in section, iig. 2 an inside view of one of the closing devices detached, Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing a modification;

In the drawings forming a part of this specification,'reference being made to Figs. 1 to 3 in elusive, I have shown at a an ordinary mailing package the body portion of which is tubular in form and composed of card-board, pasteboard or other fibrous material, and the ends of which are closed by caps b composed of similar material. T he caps b are provided with flanges or rims b adapted to inclose the ends of the body portion of the package and to closely fit the some, and in the practice of my invention I provide, in the form of con struction shown 1n Figs. 1 and 2, metal strips 0 which are passed through the flanges or rims b closely adjacent to the body ortion of the caps and the lengtlj of w iich is greater than the diameter of ssh caps. The metal stri s c, at their ends, are bent to form parts 1- t e length of which is equal to the width 0f the flanges or rims b" of the ca s b, and the end portions of the parts c" are ent to form inwardly directed barbs or prongs 0 adapted to be Jassed inwardly through the wal s of the body of the package a.

Inclosing the ends of the body of the package, the caps b are placed on said ends and the parts (I are forced through the walls thereof as clearly shown at the left hand end of Fig. 1, and in this way the ends of said package are securely closed, and in order to open the some the barbs or prongs 0 must be drawn out or the caps destroyed. The closure device shown in Fig. 3, is the same as that shown in Fig. 2, except that only one of stri s c is employed.

lty improved end closure device or doand described, as will be understood, may be used over and over again, as the lockin de vices or parts 0 and c, are flexible an the removal or detaching of the closure devices in order to open the package does not necessarily destro saidparts, and while I have described the ody portions of the closure device as composed of fibrous material, it will be apparent that other material may be employed.

Havin fully described my invention, what I cl aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;- 1

1. A package device composed of a hollow body (portion and provided with an end closure evice comprising a ca having a rim ada ted to inclosc and close y fit the end of the iiody portion, and the inner side of which is prov: the ends of which pass throu 11 said rim and project beyond the side of t 1e cap and are adapted to be folded transversely of the rim and passed inwardly through the body por tion.

2. A package device, comprising a tubular body ortion and provided with an end closure evice comprising a ca having a rim tion adjacent to said rim.

A package device composed of a hollow vices for packages of the class herein shown (led with a transverse flexible strip adapted to inclose and close y fit the body thereof to be passed through the body portubular body portion provided with and closure devices comprisln adapted. to inclose and c the body portion, said caps h transverse flexible strips which are passed through the rims cent to the inner side 0 caps having a rim 1 oseiy fit the end of I being provided thereof closely adj? f the caps, and the 5 ends of which project a distnnoe greater then the transverse width of t said strips heing'zuinptm verseiy of the he was, said ends of g i to be folded tram rims and passed inwardly;

through the body portion of the package de vice.

ln teatimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I hove si 'ned my name in 15 presence of the subscribing witnesses this 7th day of M arch, 1908.

AR'li-IUR f5. PIERSON.

Witnesses:

( E. MomREAn .Y, LL E. Doom; 

